The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 18, 1933, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1933 Plan General Strike in Red Cross Shops If Gibson Doc SCOTTSBORO BOYS'RENOVAL HELO UP SHOP COMMITTEES OF ALL GIBSON ROOSEVELT BILL FOR FARM “RELIEF” AIDS ONLY TRUSTS AND SPECULATORS Swift Passage Due in Congress; Crop Réduction Is Chief Aim; Raise Prices for Enrichment of Marketing Agencies WASHINGTON, D. C., March 17.—Swift passage by Congress of the bill containing the recommendations made by President Roosevelt in his farm message is expected, with comparatively little opposition by either Republican or Democratic representatives. Sponsored by the large-scale agricultural interests, the bill is aimed to help the trusts and speculators and holds out little if anything to the millions of ruined farmers of the CONTINUE SHOE STRIKE, BOSTON 4,000 Reject Sellout By National Ass’n BOSTON, Mass., March 17.—4,000 of the Boston shoe strikers are ‘still out after having emphatically reject- ed the proposals of the officials of the National Shoe Association to go back to work on the basis of the Lynn agreement, which calls for submitting thelr wage demands to the State Board of Arbitration for settlement while continuing work at the existing wage scale. Instead the strikers stand firm on their demand for a 25 per cent in- crease tn wages right now, and re- cognition of shop committees, The Shoe and Leather. Workers’ Industrial Union has exposed the sell-out agreement and is organizing the strikers to take rank and file control of, the strike. . Meet Scores Harlem Hospital Conditions NEW YORK.—Thursday night a large room of Lafayette Hall was packed full of Negro and white work- ers at a meeting of the Peoples’ Committee Against Discrimination in Harlem Hospital. The meeting went on record condemning the conditions in Herlem Hospital, which were sole- ly responsible for the death of Mrs. Cummings: and her child, by blood poisoning. The meeting voted to hold another meeting this coming Thursday, at 8 pam. March 23, at Lafayette Hall, 165 W. 131st St. More than 20 workers joined the committee. Pike NEW YORK.—In order to avoid any misunderstanding, it must be stated that part of the article by Sol Harper was omitted from yes- terday’s Daily Worker for lack of space. The author wishes to make it clear that the reference to “Tam- many agents” wes about those who made false statements against the Peoples’ Committee to the family of Mrs. Cummings. Mrs. Cummings died of blood poisoning in Harlem Hospital last Sunday as a result of lack of proper treatment immediately by the hospital authorities. These authorities refused to admit her when her husband first brought her there for treatment. Mrs. Sadie Hayes, 50-year old Ne- yro woman recently committed sui- cide from a window of Harlem Hos- pital; she was the second in the last three months to commit suicide trom this Tammany controlled in- stitution.—City Editor. Concert and Theatre Sun., March 26, at 8 p. m. —at the—- Spartacus Workers Club 269 WEST 25th STREET —Excellent Program— “Broadway 1933"—-Theatre Col- lective and Others ADMISSION 25 CENTS Arranged by Section 2, ©. P. In Power "nal And the Secretary of the Interior, | Harold L. Ickes, quickly forgets even his sham fight on the power trust. Tammany, Roosevelt Take Control of St. Patricks Day Parade | NEW YORK.—Tammany again had | |control of the annual St. Patricks Day parade here yesterday and made this Irish Catholic celebration a glor- ification of the O'Brien administra- tion. O'Brien and Al Smith were promin- ent in the ranks of the marchers, and | Roosevelt's cabinet was represented by James A. Farley, now postmaster general, and formerly head of the boxing commission racket in this State, POSTPONE JOINT CAMP MEET NEW YORK. — For unforeseen reasons, meeting of delegates from mass organizations to the joint camp committee is postponed to Friday evening March 24, at 8 p.m. at W.LR. office, 146 Fifth Ave., New York Cit; All organizations to have delegates. Michael Burd, Secretary country. The keynote of the recom- mendations made by Roose- velt working closely with professiona) “farm” leaders, is the problem of low prices and surplus production. With Secretary of Agriculture Wallace as actual dictator—and invested with sweeping powers—the much-touted “program” enables him to employ parts of several plans, including the Smith cotton method, the Domestic ‘| Allotment bill, the leasing of lands for the purpose of curtailing produc- tion upon them. Reduce Cultivation, ‘The withdrawing of land from cul- tivation—reduction of crops—is the chief intention of the bill, the pur- pose being artificially to raise prices, presumably for the farmer, but ac- utally for the benefit of the market- ing agencies and the trusts. Curtailment of production, one of the chief aims of the bill, will strike the heaviest blows at the millions of poor farmers with their small acreage and give increased advantage to the wealthy, large-scale farmers. Another aspect of the bill is the taxing of the processing (such as mil- ling inythe case of wheat) of wheat, cotton, corn, hogs, tobacco, rice, cat- tle, sheep, and milk and its products, “so as to bring about a gradual in- crease in their prices to a point where the purchasing power of such com- modities will be at ‘parity’ with the industrial commodities the farmers buy.” False Hopes. That this holds out false hopes, to the impoverished farmers is espe- cially evident, with the country al- ready launching into an inflation period, thus making it more and more difficult for the farmers to pur- chase his commodities with the con- tinually-lowered value of the dollar. The farmers are fighting for higher prides from the market agencies, while at the same time the workers (consumers) must demand lower prices from the distributors who rob both the farmers and the workers, At that time Max Zaritzky, presi linery Workers (A.F.L.) put over a fake stoppage to “stabilize the in- dustry.” It ended with a collective agreement which on paper at least, provided a minimum wage, 40-hour 5-day week, no overtime while there ere empty machines or benches, ete. Actually Very Different But, in reality, this was all just demagogy, which the left wing was at that time not: militant and active enough to thoroughly expose. The hours are actually as much as 60 or 63 a week; whatever the boss and union officials want to put over, ‘The agreement provides that the union and employers’ association shall set up a system of unemploy- ment insurance. In the whole year not the slightest beginning has been made on that, In Local 24 and Local 42, trade union democracy is absolutely abol- ished, and no regular meetings are held, Officials of Local 24, elected for one year only, have held office without new elections, In the cap industry, under such Headgear Workers Rank and File Hold Conference Today Rally From Right Wing Unions Against 65 Hour Week and Terrific Exploitation NEW YORK.—The conference today and tomorrow at Irving Plaga Hall, of representatives of all headgear workers organizations, including millinery workers, cap makers and hatters, is a continuation of rank and file struggle that started over a year ago. dent of the Cloth Hat, Cap and Mil- ee an agreement, the sweat shop condi- tions have returned, full force. The union officials propose only one way out—to legalize piece work and re- duce union shop conditions to the level of the sweat shop. Union Wrecked The union officials themselves, in their eagerness for the good will of the boss, have smashed locals all over the country. , In such centers as Philadelphia, Boston, Cleveland, St. Louis and Chicago there is only @ mere semblance of the union. Men's hats have been under con- trol of the United Hatters of North America. Now two-thirds of that in- dustry is unorganized, union mem- bership declines steadily, and wages are slashed. The union officials are serving the bosses openly, against the interests of the workers. a All these problems, and a program of united struggle for better condi- tions and wages will be the main topics at the conference today and tomorrow, The conference is called by the Headgear United Front Rank and File Committee, Trial NEW YORK. — Scottsboro De- fense mass meeting at 8:30 p.m. Sunday, at Co-operative Audito- rium, called by Ronald Edwards Group of the L.S.N.R. Speakers: F, . A. Welsh, Louis B. Scott, and Al- rt Glassford, member of the La- bor Jury just returned from Ala- bama. in Decatur CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., March 17. —Following the victory of the at- torneys of the International Labor Defense in compelling Alabama's at- torney-general, Knight, to consent to transfer the Scottsboro boys from the death house in Kilby prison to the Jefferson county jail in Birmingham Ala., legal obstacles have been placed in the way which will postpone this action. Two sircuit judges as well as Sher- iff McBryde of Jackson county, | where the original frame-up of the innocent Negro youths first origi- nated, must sign the “consent’ or- der before they can be removed to the Birmingham jail, Will Be Taken from Death Cell. Not only will the removal take the Scottsboro boys out of the death cells to Begin March 27 in Kilby prison, but will enable de- fense attorneys to discuss their case with them privately, without inter- ference by prison officials and guards —a situation which has existed dur- ing the entire time the boys have been imprisoned. The trial is scheduled to begin on March 27. Some time before that date the Negro boys will be removed to the Morgan county jail from which they will be taken to Decatur where the fight to free the boys will be made by the International Labor De- fense. Decatur, which is only 50 miles from Scottsboro, is the place to which the trial scene was moved, after the defense attorneys sought unsuccessfully to win a change of venue to Birmingham, one of the large industrial centers of the South. Protest Drive On. Meanwhile, from its national office in New York, the LL.D. urged an intensification of the protest cam- paign against the legal lynching of the Scottsboro boys. Recently Gov. Miller of Alabama admitted that he had received “no less than 160,000 protest wires and resolutions” de- manding freedom for the framed-up youths. pe Serv trcnceeselty gether, Noted Speakers, Full will hold tonight at St. Nicholas Arena, 66th St. and Broadway. For Scottsboro Boys Celebrating the establishment of the first workers’ republic by the Parisian working class in March, 1871, the Paris Commune Festival | will be in addition 2 powerful de-/ monstration by workers here against the bosses’ threat to electrocute the nine innocent Scottsboro boys, and against the vicious reign of terror by the Hitler fascist gang against the German working class. Speakers will include Michael Gold, Waldo Frank, Mrs. Lincoln Steffens, well known writers; Irving Schwab, attorney for the Scottsboro boys just returned from Alabama; Richard B. Moore and Albert Glassford, member of the Scottsboro Labor Jury. John J. Ballam, District Secretary I.L.D. will preside as chairman. ‘The march of the Soviet cavalry troops and their triumph over the enemies of the workers’ fatherland, the U.S.8.R., will be symbolized in a dance fitled “Red Cavalry” staged by the Red Dancers under the di- rection of Edith Segal. This dance group will also present “Black and White,” and “Southern Holiday.” Endorsed by a large list of mass organizations, among them the In- ternational Workers Order and the Trade Union Unity Council, the cele- bration is expected to be one of the largest of its kind held in this city. Arrangements have been completed | for seating comfortably 7,000 at St. Nicholas Arena this Saturday night. The program is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. ere Staten Island Meeting A Paris Commune Memorial Meet- Jim-Crow Negro Children in Baltimore the bosses decree forbidding Negro and white children from playing to- PARIS COMMUNE AND SCOTTSBORO DEFENSE MASS MEETING TONIGH Cast of Hall Johnson Play; Red Dancers; Other Meetings Sunday NEW YORK —Ten-minute speeches by prominent writers and revo- | lutionary Jeaders on the Scottsboro case, a musical program by the full cast | from Hall Johnson's highly praised Negro folk pli revolutionary dances, a dramatic sketch by the famous Negro actress, Rose McLendon, will be featured at the Paris Commune Festival which the N, Y. Distfict International Labor Defense @———————_—— “Run Little Chiilun,” | ing will be held at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Svea Hall, 789 Post Ave., Staten Island, | ° Brownsville Meeting A full program has been arranged |for the Marx Memorial and Paris |Commune meeting called by the | Communist Party for 8 p.m. Sunday, 1813 Pitkin Ave., Brownsville. Sid- ney Bloomfield will speak on “50 | Years of Marxism,” and Sol Horwatt {on “Marx and the Parie Commune.” Rose Nami, Russian folk singer, and | Paul Bernstein, guitarist, will enter- tain. LABOR UNION MEETINGS MILLINERY WORKERS Conference of all millinery workers, cep makers and hatters March 18 and 19 at Irv- ing Plaza Hall. Called by the Headwear United Front Rank and File Committee, e LABOR UNITY AGENTS All organizations are called to have their representatives present at the Labor Unity Agents meeting at 8 p.m., March 20, at Room 238 in 799, Broadway. ° . ALTERATION PAINTERS Regular weekly meeting of Alteration Painters, 8 p.m,, March 20th at 4215 Third Ave. Wen 8 SLIPPER WORKERS Slipper Department of the Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Union runs » dance March 18 at Astoria Mansion, 62 |E. Fourth st. OFFICE WORKERS C. Hathaway will speak st the mass mob- ilization meeting to launch a recruiting campaign of the Office Workers Union, & p. m., March 22 at Stuyvesant Casino, 9th St. and Second Ave. DRESSMAKERS OPEN FORUM by Left Wing Group of | Local a.m. Sunday at Ambassador Hail, soi ‘Thivd Ave., Bronx, | ecutive Board, have replaced wor! |G shop Thursday to take the jobs| | of other workers, but decided to “go eee ’ because of the exposures. e Essex Street Gibson shop is Py having an “investigation” rush- | tele should have sajd that Hoffman | School. He is to go on the air at esn’t S op Graft SHOPS IN CONFERENCE TOMORROW 150 in “S & G” Shop Meeting Expose Cheating By the Gibson Time Keeper On Dummy Cards and Railroading Witnesses to Asylum Chairmen of Other Red Cross Shops Pledge Solidarity of Workers; Gibson’s Representative Present, Makes Flimsy Defense NEW YORK.—A general strike of all the needle trades workers employed in the Gib- son Red Cross shops will be called by the Needle Trades Unemployed Council if the outrage- ous grafting and pillaging of the Gibson Red Cross Cloth funds by the latters’ officials do not cease immediately, it was announced Thursday night at a meeting of the S shop. ) workers of the S and G shop, with a Gibson Committee “unofficial observer,” heard Hoffman, secretary of the Needle T: Sand G Red Cross present as an des Unemployed Council, expose the Gibson rackevecring, and cheered the visiting chairmen and workers of Red Cross LL.G.W. CHIEFS = | REPLACE TOILERS “ ‘Take Jobs and Money In Red Cross Shops | 1 NEW YORK.—Supposedly into o pockets of the unemployed needle | trades workers for whom they were intended, but in reality into the | pockets of the Gibson gang and the | Executive Board of the Internationa! | Ladies Garment Workers Union| Local 22, go the Gibson Committee | Red Cross Cloth funds. Charles Zimmerman, Charles Mar- golles, Pearl Halperin, Barber, Far- ber, and Koppelson, the latter former member of the Local 22 E; ers who were unjustly fired in Gibson shops. Two Lovestonite friends of Zimmerman came up to the S and) ed ee to cover up the graft and the fact that two brothers of the Stearn Committee timekeeper, Katz, work there. | The following is the story of the worker, Morrlgs Goldberg, who Mx. Huston, Gibson’s assistant, wishes to send to an insane asylum because Goldberg exposed the racket in the} Gibson, 8 and G shop. (One worker, | a woman, is alréady in an asylum) because she also dared fight the Gib- son gang). a) CORRECTION: — Yesterday's ar- spoke to Houston, instead of Gib- son. Houston is Gibson’s assistant, in charge of distributing work on | Red Cross Cloth. Prospect Club Adds to) “Daily” Drive Total; | Plan to Double Quota | NEW YORK.—The Prospect Work- | | type of * shops throughout the brought messages of solidarit in the fight against the cor- | ruption. Conference Sunday the workers yoted to call a Be of the shop committees of Gib plants for tomo row morni ving Plaza Ha 15th Street, corner Irving Place, 1., to plan i " ype of corrup- | tion, which included th pronouncing of workers who “know too much | Sane by Mr. Huston, Gibson's assist ant, and the hiring of International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union Ex- ecutive Board members in place of militant workers who are fired with- | out cause, and thei, cards | punched each y to fill he pockets of Gibson's officials. ‘The | unofficial” Gibson represen e| took the floor. | He asked the workers how they | knew there were “dummy” time | cards. He asked, innocently, “Don't | you sign when you get your pay?” They Didn't Sign The answer of the workers was. “No, for 12 weeks the officials simply | called the names of workers and | handed out the pay. Last week, when the racket was brought into the open the officials got frightened and had us sign for the first time, and one worker, Harry Goldman, said he ‘did | not want his and therefore did not go up to sign for it,” | The Gibson man said they would have to prove the charges and. -his committee would investigats Hoffman then told the workers the | “investigation” they could’ ex- | pect of the Gibson gang. He saitt? i “When it comes to accusing a| worker, Mr. Huston requires no de- | finite proof. But when it is his own | committees’ graft and corruption, he | asks for black and white proof. He, | of course, doesn’t ask the same of | Mr. Katz, his timekeeper. | “The girl ‘Beatrice’, card No. 1,| quit 7 weeks ago, her card was being | punched every day. “Mr Huston will have to take the | word and proof of ‘the workers in the shops. But we have no faith in the Emergency Relief Bureau doing | any thing about it.” | whoe— FINGERPRINTING _ RELIEF WORKERS To Save G afters and Scare the Witnesses NEW YORK.—The system of es- ge introduced by the Emer- Home Relief Bureau two months ago among its employees, is being developed to include finger- printing and lengthy questionaires in order to eliminate those of their workers who expose the graft and corruption of the Tammany “relief” ne. In precinct 5, located at 201 Eliza- beth Street, Manhattan, fingerprint- ing has already become an actuality with the vague promise that the em- Ployees will be under the jurisdiction of the Service Commission. The questionaires, supposedly for the Civil Service Commission, will be used as a weapon in firing workers on the grounds that they “do net meet Civil Service requirements.” | Employees suspected of exposing to the working class the burocracy, in- efficiency, graft and corruption of the officials, will be ousted by a “Civil Service” rejection. The political ap- pointees of Tammany Hall will, of course, be unmolested in their blooc sucking activities on the workers of New York In almost..every instance, the re- cent disclosures of graft and crooked dealings in the Home Relief Bureaus which resulted in arrests, were the ‘relief activities” of Tammany ap- | pointees. Workers and a shop chairman of each of the other Gibson Red Cross factories promised the solidarity of their shops if a general strike is call- ed to smash the Gibson racket. Zimmerman, one of the Local 22 International Ladies Garment Work- jer leaders, promised his ‘co-opera- tion” but did not deny the charges of an agreement between the GIb- son official, Katz, and the LL.G.W.U. heads to replace 30 workers with the latter's union officials. ers Center has contributed another $35.50 to the Daily Worker, raking | its total donation to date $208.50.) The members of this club, whose | original quote was $175, plan to double this sum in actual achieve- ment, For this purpose, they have issued a challenge to all the other New York clubs, asking: “Which club is ready to accept our challenge to bring the largest donation to the Daily Worker banquet on Sunday, March 19?” Tonight 2 Marionette Play and Dance will be held at the Prospect Workers Center, 1157 Southern Blvd. MARKOFF, COMMUNIST, SPEAKS ON WAR, OVER RADIO SUNDAY NEW YORK—The Foreign Affairs Forum has arranged for a symposium over Station WEVD, March 19, at 10 pm, on the subject: “HAS OUR PEACE MACHINERY FAILED?” Among the speakers will be Comrade A. Markoff, Director of the Workers 10 p.m. sharp, Comrade Markoff is to present the Commanist point of view. IN.Y. Clubs i in Keen Race to Win “Daily” Drive Banner NEW YORK.—Workers Clubs here are speeding their work in the Rely Worker drive for $35,000 in response to the papers appeals for funds to put the drive over the top, Origin-| ally given a quota of $1,500, the clubs themselves have determined to go tar beyond this. So far, however, only four of these clubs have gone above the 100 per cent mark, These are Middle Bronx Workers Club, which has raised} $80.87; the Hinsdale Workers Club,| $71.54; and the Bronx Workers Club, $157.78 and the Prospect Workers| Center, Altogether, 66 per cent, roughly, of the present club-quotas has been ful- filled, Members of these clubs are urged to speed up their collections and con- ributions immediately, to complete ioe go above their quotas as soon as possible. The standing follows: Middle Bronx Wkrs« Club § 50 Hinsdale Workers Club Bronx Workers Clu! Coney Island Wes $ 80.87 71st 161 Mapleton Workers Boro Park Workers Ct Brownsville Youth Cente: E. N. ¥. Workers Club Brownsville Workers Club. Artet Workers Club Fast Side Workers Club Zakumft Workers Club. Union Workers Club. Wimsb'rgh Workers Club. Brighton Beach Whrs Cl Bath Beach Workers Club_ New Lots Workers Club_ City Committee TOTALS Roosevelt “Emergency” The economy bill stands out before the masses clearly, as class legisla~ tion against the toiling masses. In substance §t consists of taking away from the victims of the last world ‘mperialist war, the wounded, the gassed, the broken down veterans, vbout a Raff billion dollars. This neans starvation, continued suffer- ng from diwease, and starvation to hundreds of thousands of veterans, The ery is raised that these veterans ire grafting on the government. This s @ brazen lie, These veterans ex- sept for the high officers who receive arge sums, have come to their yresent conditions becatise of the var, They are most of them unable ‘o work even if they could secure vork, which ig not the case, They are dying away even today, inable to get into the overcrowded wospitals. They receive a measly al owance, which does not even make t possible for them to get the most wgent necessities. The second part of this bill is a irect Wage cut of an average of 5 per cent ee bathed poorly aid government employees. It is interesting to note that the locialist leaders did not have a word 0 say this bill in their audi- nee with President Roosevelt. The joctalist Jeader Heywood Broun jrote @ special column in the World- Telegram praising Roosevelt for this economy bill and attacking and slandering the Communist Party and its national chairman Wm. Z. Foster, for fighting against the veterans benefit cuts. The AFL. leaders are doing noth- ing to fight this legislation, which Mathew Woll openly supports. The Roosevelt “liberal” government can find only attacks on the veterans and government employees, as a method of trying to balance the budget. The rich with their billions are left untouched, The top leaders of the American Legion and other ve- terans organizations are trying to save their face with certain amend- ments, but they are all supporting this bill. 3, THE ROOSEVELT UNEMPLOY- MENT RELIEF PROGRAM ‘The original bill of Roosevelt on unemployment relief called for a half billion dollar bond issue for public works thru conscript labor. It is planned to regiment about 200,~ 000 to 300,000 workers and send them, as a labor army to various sections of the country at $1 a day. The plan as announced makes a lot of noise that the government will spend 2 billions for the unemployed, What is the meaning of this new proposed two billion dollar program? FORCED LABOR CAMPS While all the publicity is being created about the big undertaking, Roosevelt announces that the actual amount is not yet decided upon. But already the impression is created that a big undertaking is being con- sidered which will result in employ- ment for millions. But even if the full amount of 2 billion is considered, what does it really amount to? As a ready part of this program is to regiment some 200,000 to 300,000 workers for the lumber camps, forests and farms at the rate of $1 per day. These- unemployed, thru the same announcement we learn are to be chosen from those who are not on the relief lists and not doing anything, So that in reality the workers thus recruited will of course receive ‘less than those receiving relief now in some of the larger cities. And in addition they will have to perform hard forced labor in camps removed from their families, regi- mented, to military rule, as part of the war preparations program. They will in many cases replace labor now receiving many times the wages these regimented workers will receive. Of the so called two billion Sioun pro- gram 500 Nip 4s allotted to this phase of the program, But it is clear that this will not mean any extra expenditure on the part of the capitalists and the government. On the contrary it will be merely a means to provide cheap labor. The second part of the progr calls for one billion dollars to be How the T.U.U.L. Trade Unions and the Oppo- | sition in the A. F. of L. Should Beat Back the New Drive of the Bosses On Their Living Standard loaned thru the Reconstruction Fin- ance Corporation for certain public projects. It is already announced that this may not be spent now but at some other time. Here is another fraud in the name of relief to the unemployed, thru which over a long- er period subsidies may be given to the railroads and the other big corporations, The third phase of the program calls for the appropriation of a half billion for loans to the vari- ous states for direct relief, But this is already being done now and does not represent anything new. We see that even if the so called two billion dollar program were ac- tually adopted, which is not yet the case, it represents really very little new. It will not relieve unemploy- ment, it will not mean adequate re- Nef to the growing army of unem- ployed. The only thing new, is the new attack against the unemployed in the form of regimented: forced labor camps. SHELVE UNEMPLOYMENT am | INSURANCE It is interesting to note that Roose- velt does not say a word about unem- ployment insurance, which he promis- ed in his pre-election speeches. And neither does the A.F.L, leadership, nor do the Socialist Party leaders have one word to say about the de- mand for unemployment insurance for which they profess to stand, It is clear that the whole Roose- velt program is the program of the bankers and big capitalists against the toiling masses. It also is clear that the A.F.L, leaders and the Soci- alist Party support this Roosevelt- Wall Street Hunger and War Pro- gram against the masses. What can the masses do about this program? They must resist it with all their might. We can and must defeat these attacks, WORKERS STRUGGLES RISING Already the struggles of the work- ers are rising and are becoming the decisive factor, that will determine to what extent the Roosevelt govern- ment will be able to carry thru its hunger program. | counteract the attacks thru the bank- | The recent big strikes in the auto} | industry in Detroit where the bank crisis was first felt, is now followed by strikes of tens of thousands of shoe workers in New England, who are demanding increased wages. The miners are preparing to fight for in- a@eased wages. In many other in- dustries the workers are girding for the struggle. The struggles of the unemployed are reaching a higher stage. The demonstrations on March 4th spread throughout the country embracing many new cities and towns. A new fighting spirit is to be seen amongst the unemployed. The struggles of the farmers are also taking on a more militant character and becoming more widespread. The peterans are, in the face of the betrayal by their leaders, preparing to fight back the Roosevelt attacks, TASKS OF THE TRADE UNIONS The trade unions affiliated to the T.U.U.L. and the oppositions inside the A.F.L. unions must take the lead | in organizing the resistance of the masses to these new attacks. To ing legislation, the trade unions must organize the united fight of the work- | ers to demand the full payment to) all small depositors; to demand full payment of wages and all back wages in cash; a corresponding increase in already visible as a result of the in- flation policy. We must organize the | fight for higher wages, for lower, prices, for lower rents, Secondly we must organize the joint fight of the employed and un- employed against new layoffs that are now taking place, against the shutting down of the factories. We must demand compensation where factories are closed. We must de- mand cash relief. Fight against the forced labor camps and against evictions, for union scale wages on all public works jobs, against forced labor generally. ‘We must develop on a broader basis | the united struggle for unemployment insurance. The trade unions must take up the fight against the Roosevelt economy | program. We must fight against the | attacks on the disabled veterans. Take | up the fight for the full payment of | the bonus to the veterans. The fight against wage cuts for the govern- ment employees, must become the fight of the whole working class. HOW TO DEVELOP THE FIGHT | Special meetings of the union mam- | berships should take place at which | the whole Roosevelt program is out- | lined and exposed. This is to be fol- Jowed by mass meetings of worker's, | the adoption of protest resolutions, | the organization of mass demonstra- tions, the organization of broad Program and Tasks of Unions Roosevelt program. This struggle must take on con+ crete form in each factory, at the un- employment relief stations and veter- ans relief organizations. ‘This fight must be brought into every local of the AF.L., into all workers mass or- ganizations. Special attention must be given to the drawing in of Soci- alist workers into the struggle, | AGAINST HUNGER AND | WAR PROGRAM It is necessary to connect up the deepening crisis in the U.S.A. with the whole world situation and expose the war preparations of the U. 8. government. To contrast the pro- letarian prosperity in the Soviet Union with the hunger regime in the U. S. To show to the masses how it is not some loose screw that is re sponsible for the present situation, but that the whole capitalist order is dying. To expose the attempts of the capitalists to get out of the crisis thru new attacks on the masses, thru fascist stion and imperialist war. To show to the masses that they must resist every attack and fight for every concession, and at the same time build their organizations. Thru the immediate struggies to prepare the workers for fight to the overthrow of the whole rotten system of capitalism, which brings, only starvation, and war to the masses. and that only thru the abolition of capitalism can there be for the res ‘wages to counteract the rise in prices united front conferences to fight the | masses peace and prosperity